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UK considers ‘fat tax’
Tuesday 10th July 2007
More than 3,000 fatal heart attacks and strokes could be prevented in the UK each year if VAT was slapped on a vast range of foods, say Oxford researchers. A 17.5% rise on fatty, sugary or salty food would cut heart and stroke deaths by 1.7%, the study in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health said. One of the researchers declared the time was right to debate a “fat tax”.
When will this government stop trying to dictate how people should live their lives? It should be up to the individual to decide what to eat, what they should and shouldn’t do. Personally I enjoy a balanced diet, so why should I have to pay more because somebody else eats only “junk food”? There are no unhealthy foods - only unhealthy diets.
This government will not be happy until they have taken every single thread of “freedom” and “individuality” from our lives. First they came for the hunters, then drivers, then the smokers and drinkers. Now the fatties.
Is taxation the only solution to every problem that that this government comes up with? What’s next… a tax on the air we breathe?
This post is filed under What is the World coming to? by Lonewolf at 12:37pm
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